On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:19:15 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> wrote:

 > But, something else happened.  PCI GURUS:
 > When I claimed that the OS was PnP aware then the PCI based ethernet
 > card stopped working because the PCI attachment code said it couldn't
 > map its I/O registers.  Why?  Do we depend on BIOS to set up the PCI
 > cards?  Why?

Right, see my mail on this subject.  According to the PCI spec, the
system firmware is supposed to program the mapping registers for
PCI devices; AFAIK, the operating system software isn't really supposed
to muck with them.

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